Ever since she was a little girl,
thirty-year-old Rosedreamed of the day Harley
would carry her across the threshold on their honeymoon. So what if this isn’t
her actual wedding day, and that she’s only here because Harley was left at the
altar just a few hours earlier?

Trading San Francisco for paradise
and swapping her bridesmaid’s bouquet for a Blue Hawaii, Rose hopes she can
finally escape the friend zone.

Once upon a time they had been more
than friends, but life got in the way. She’s spent every day since wishing
Harley would get a clue.

She’s always been his best friend.

He’s always been hers.

She’s in love with him.

He’s … not in love
with her.

He’s … marrying
someone else.

He’s … hiding
something.

He’s … well—it’s complicated.

Excerpt

“Do you love her?”

Harley’s temper flares as he meets my gaze. “Rose—”

“Do you?”

“I don’t know.” He rakes a hand through his hair. A beat later it falls right back in his face. I long to reach out and touch it, but that isn’t my place anymore. “Yeah. I think so. When I’m with her I’m a different man, but when I’m here with you, I’m … I’m me.”

“God,” I breathe. “That’s so much worse.” Fresh tears prick my eyes. I cover my face, as if I could hide my torment or the despair that I feel in this moment.

As if I could hide anything from this man.

“I know.” Sadness chokes his voice, making the words almost impossible to hear. Harley pulls me close, folding me in his arms, holding me the way he has a thousand times before, but this time it’s infinitely different.

Harley and Rose have a tumultuous relationship but it was hard tell just how tumultuous until I really uncovered all the years their story covered. Best friends since childhood, Harley and Rose share a relationship that most people go their whole lives looking for. Yet Harley and Rose seem to rarely be on the same wave length creating hurt, anger and desperation.

This book left me conflicted. I'm not gonna lie. But it also left me feeling every possible emotion and for that Carmen Jenner gets 4 gold stars.

Reviewed by Paige

★★☆ 4 "My Heart Shall Never Be the Same" Stars ☆★★

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Carmen Jenner is a thirty-something, USA Today and international bestselling author.

A tattoo enthusiast, hardcore makeup addict and zombie fangirl, Carmen lives on the sunny North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, where she spends her time indoors wrangling her two wildling children, a dog named Pikelet, and her very own man-child.

A romantic at heart, Carmen strives to give her characters the HEA they deserve, but not before ruining their lives completely first … because what’s a happily ever after without a little torture?